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hi,

i tried to run xelatex. but i have the following line of code at the preamble:

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

this generates (even when i run xelatex) a pdf with nimbus... font

i tried to insert (instead)

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setromanfont{TeX Gyre Pagella}

(and installed Pagella font of course ...

well...my joy was a bit too soon. the sample file worked ok but when i tried to run my actual file (which had previously: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc})
it ran ok but gave me (editable) pagella jibrish (i used \usepackage{fontspec} instead as that was the way the sample code was given

what's his problem ...

yea yea yaahhhhhhhhh

FAAAAANtastic....finally!

i can write (and edit) with pagella!!!!pagella!!

dude you'RE the man!

hi,

dear Montag, i don't know what the words you wrote mean (OTF TTF...etc). what i want is some sort of a solution that will enable me to execute pdflatex (or generate a pdf by any other way with latex, which i dont know) to generate a pdf with any of the standard font for windows (TNR, Arial ...

hi again,

i found a XelateX link on the web and tried running a sample code i found there to write in Tahuma but my editor (latex editor, LEd) said that something called XeteX is required, i've never installed packages into latex. where can i get a windows version of xetex and how can i install it ...

hi,

i downloaded and installed every thing i could understand but still...

i have the problem of my supervisor who wants to edit my PDFs (generated with latex). he can't do so because of this weird font that Adobe writer (and my windows sys) don't have or recognize. what i do at the moment is that ...

thnx again, that was pretty helpful!

only thing left is the damn pdf font issue

my supervisor can't edit my pdfs generated with latex because of font issues. why doesn't latex use a normal standard font instead of this weird nimbus thing?

dear friend,

thank you for your comment. but everybody is telling me it's a free font but the links i get give me "close" font names but not the actual font itself

i downloaded and installed several fonts (including tex-gyre termes)

but Adobe acrobat still doesn't recognize the font given by ...

wow man!

thnx a lot!!

one problem solved

i still though have the text that follows SOME of the picture "glued" to the caption so as one might think that the caption continues on

how can i force a space between the caption and the rest of the text? (i want to do what an "enter" command does in ...

hi,

i tried looking for this NimbusRomNo9L font for free download and couldn't find.

could you please specify a direct link? or the name of the website or something?

thnx